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Winn went as usual into his study to play with his eternal experiments in leather. Lionel went with him. She heard the two men laughing together down the passage. Could real friends have laughed if they had minded parting with each other? She sat at her desk in the drawing-room biting nervously at her pen. He was going; was it possible that there would be no farewell?
"Yes, if that's what you call it; but you want to get a move onto you in a hurry." Bewildered and indignant as he was, Winn was yet cool enough to realize the folly of resistance. He also reflected that when these men found the hut deserted, and that there was no one besides themselves on the island, they would be willing to listen to his story.
We shall do all we can to help you, and then you'll go back to England, won't you?" "Yes," she said, shivering, "I suppose so. I shall go back to England. I shall have to see George's people. They don't like me. Will will that be all?" "As far as I am concerned," said Winn, more gently, "there is only one thing further I have to suggest.
I'm as tired of pet names and baby talk as I am of waiting here for high-water that won't ever come." With this the petulant lad rose to his feet, and leaping ashore, disappeared among the trees of the river-bank, leaving Elta to gaze after him with a grieved expression, and a suspicion of tears in her brown eyes. In spite of this little scene, Winn Caspar was not an ill-tempered boy.
"I should advise your remaining in England for three months, I think you will be used quicker if you do that. War is unlikely to begin in India, and the climate is deleterious in the summer months. And might I suggest the carrying out of a few minor precautions? If you are to live efficiently for two years, it will be highly necessary for you to carry them out." Winn turned toward him eagerly.
As they were dejectedly resuming their clothing in the "shanty" they were startled by a shout from outside. Winn Caspar had solved the problem. While the others were watching the fruitless struggles of Glen and Sumner from one side of the raft he had slipped overboard from the other, and swam diagonally across the current to a hedge of oleanders, the tops of which were still above water.
I think I shall live till the spring if I don't get influenza. I hope you'll remember not to come near me if you feel a cold coming on." Winn assured him that he would. "I asked Dr. Gurnet the other day," Mr. Bouncing went on musingly, "if he thought I should ever be able to walk to the post-office again I used to get there and back last winter, you know but he wouldn't give me a direct answer.
Mrs Winn, who was a widow, lived in an old-fashioned, red brick house facing the High Street; it had a respectable, dignified appearance, suggesting solid comfort, like the person of its owner. Mrs Winn, however, was a lady not anxious for her own well-being only, but most charitably disposed towards others who were not so prosperous as herself.
The present Walnut was first called Pool Street; Chestnut was called Winn Street; and Market was called High Street. If he could have foreseen the enormous modern growth of the city, he might not have made his streets so narrow and level.
And I was married when I was seventeen, and now I'm a grandmother. How the years do fly on! And she had to die out in that heathen land; he too. Wasn't it odd about sending her here beforehand? I do want to see her." "She is somewhere about, interested in all these foreign things." Miss Winn was not quite sure of the chattering woman.
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